The evolution of motherboard power systems has always been a challenging environment from both a cost and performance standpoint. This is particularly true for the CPU Vcore power control. Over the ...

There is little doubt that the worlds of large-scale data analytics and high performance computing share common features, but when it comes to meshing these two disparate technology (and to a large ...

A multi-peer system using a standard-based PCI Express multi-port as the System Interconnect was described in an IDT white paper by Kwok Kong. That white paper described the different address domains ...

I was recently writing about AMD's new Zen architecture (now Ryzen), and Intel's Kaby Lake chips are coming out soon. I throw around a lot of technical jargon that can come off sounding like insane ...

Programming processors is becoming more complicated as more and different types of processing elements are included in the same architecture. While systems architects may revel in the number of ...

Multiprocessor system design gets more complex as new technologies like InfiniBand and HyperTransport come online. System designers have a number of choices when it comes to multiprocessor system ...

Through the looking glass: A new patent filed by AMD suggests they're considering following Intel and Arm down the hybrid computing path. But amusingly, the rather generic patent describes a very ...

Tensilica has delivered a range of processor architectures like the Xtensa LX (see Power Play For The SoC Developers) as well as DSP and the ConnX comm processor (see Dataplane Processing Unit More ...